You know you’re from San Diego when..]
Feb. 8th, 2022 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23Before we went to IKEA the other day we went to my niece’s house.The off ramp was Fairmount which had me singing “Pearson Ford we stand alone at Fairmount and El Cajon”. (Pearson was a car dealership).If you’ve lived in San Diego for any amount of time(I have,more or less my entire life) and that name was so familiar to me!
Want to get me waxing nostalgic?It doesn’t take much. Like the OG Fashion Valley(before it got a whole ass redo and is easily one of the nicest malls in the area. It wasn’t always so.They have gone very high end but back in the day, it was a bit different(to give you some idea, at least 30 plus years ago they had a Woolworth there.Yeah!)
I am one of those people who it doesn’t take much to get me talking about San Diego. I miss Anthony’s by the harbor SO much. We used to go there a LOT.I always ordered the same thing(fish and chips). They just knocked down Pernicano’s in Hillcrest.What’s interesting about that place is that old man Pernicano,the patriarch of the family, was a homophobe. Irony, much?
There are places that have seen better days and were much busier at one point. Seaport Village for one(back in the day you would go there and there would be tons of people there and it was a whole thing.)There was a store there that sold mugs and they had some with funny sayings on them .“Beavers don’t give a dam” was one of them.
Also, Horton Plaza which was sprawling .And they knocked it down!It was a dead mall for several years before they finally demoed it. When it first opened there were a lot of empty stores but they filled in pretty quickly and some of them were there for a while and they left. Horton Plaza had it’s time and then it didn’t. Let’s not forget when they added the Sam Goody store(always overpriced..I don’t think I ever bought anything there.)
Did you know that Price Club, which merged with Costco,started in San Diego?They only had one store for the longest time. Also, Jack In The Box.Also Qualcomm(my dad is friends with Gary Jacobs who is the son of Qualcomm’s founder.)
Want to get me waxing nostalgic?It doesn’t take much. Like the OG Fashion Valley(before it got a whole ass redo and is easily one of the nicest malls in the area. It wasn’t always so.They have gone very high end but back in the day, it was a bit different(to give you some idea, at least 30 plus years ago they had a Woolworth there.Yeah!)
I am one of those people who it doesn’t take much to get me talking about San Diego. I miss Anthony’s by the harbor SO much. We used to go there a LOT.I always ordered the same thing(fish and chips). They just knocked down Pernicano’s in Hillcrest.What’s interesting about that place is that old man Pernicano,the patriarch of the family, was a homophobe. Irony, much?
There are places that have seen better days and were much busier at one point. Seaport Village for one(back in the day you would go there and there would be tons of people there and it was a whole thing.)There was a store there that sold mugs and they had some with funny sayings on them .“Beavers don’t give a dam” was one of them.
Also, Horton Plaza which was sprawling .And they knocked it down!It was a dead mall for several years before they finally demoed it. When it first opened there were a lot of empty stores but they filled in pretty quickly and some of them were there for a while and they left. Horton Plaza had it’s time and then it didn’t. Let’s not forget when they added the Sam Goody store(always overpriced..I don’t think I ever bought anything there.)
Did you know that Price Club, which merged with Costco,started in San Diego?They only had one store for the longest time. Also, Jack In The Box.Also Qualcomm(my dad is friends with Gary Jacobs who is the son of Qualcomm’s founder.)
